What does St Mary’s mean to you???
As a valued member of St Mary’s, you will be aware that we are currently without a Vicar since Rev Amanda left in July. As part of the process to appoint a new Vicar, theParochial Church Council (PCC) is required to put together a document called the Parish Profile which is used by prospective Vicars to find out about St Mary’s and the area – it should say who we are and what we feel. The Parish Profile is a fairly weighty document going through in detail information about the Parish, demographics, the church, people, services, Vicarage, other organisations, etc.
To make this document ‘personal’, we would like input from church members about what St Mary’s means to them personally, what you get from it, and actually what more St Mary’s could be to you. We intend to add all of these into the Parish Profile.
Your comments are entirely anonymous and can be as short or as long as you wish. You can leave them at any of the following:
- Box at back of church
- Through the Vicarage letterbox
- Emailed to vicar@stmarywoodkirk.org
- Messages on Twitter/Facebook
We do need your messages by the end of September 2015!!
While we are in the interregnum, services continue as normal with visiting priests for the Communion services. We are also looking forward to a full programme of Christmas services including the Carols by Candlelight on 20th December at 4pm and the Christingle Services on Christmas Eve. St Mary’s will not stagnate without a Vicar! Please bookmark our web site www.stmarywoodkirk.org to keep up-to-date with upcoming events, and if you’re on social media, follow us on Twitter and Facebook – see above.
Securing a new Vicar is not a quick process! However, we will endeavour to keep everybody informed with our progress regularly through church notices, the Parish News, and the web site.
Many thanks for your support.
St Mary’s Parochial Church Council
The Feast of St Mary the Virgin
Today is the feast day of our patron Saint. This is a prayer from the old Book of Common Prayer for today:
O God, you have taken to yourself the blessed Virgin Mary, mother of your incarnate Son: Grant that we, who have been redeemed by his blood, may share with her the glory of your eternal kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
August 2015 Magazine
Meet George and Jemima
At our All-Age worship this morning the theme was about us being adopted as God’s children. As regular worshippers will know, Charlie and Alice make frequent appearances in this service, but as they have moved house with Amanda and Derek, we have adopted two new puppets ourselves. Following a competition in the service this morning, their new names are George and Jemima.
We look forward to many exciting adventures with them in All-Age services in the future.
